tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post7125565267458336034..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: On the Far Left's General Election CampaignPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-69634289030518702482015-04-20T19:00:23.064+01:002015-04-20T19:00:23.064+01:00The far left campaign gains about nil national med...The far left campaign gains about nil national media coverage.<br /><br />The Tories have already won because no big party will get the 326 MP minimum threshold to form a UK government. <br /><br />The Lib Dems will be much reduced or even down to 19 MPs. So the gone party.<br /><br />Labour could not gain the predicted 277 seats, but lose all 40 in Scotland. <br /><br />Labour could lose some of their seats in Wales to Plaid Cymru.<br /><br />The socialist parties need to win MPs in this election.<br /><br />Because Between SNP, PLAID CYMRU - 99 MP seats.<br /><br />Between CLASS WAR / SOCIALIST GB / TUSC / THE LEFT UNITY PARTY / NORTH EAST PARTY / NATIONAL HEALTH ACTION<br /><br />Between them all upwards of nearly 250 MPs plus, in a powerful alliance on the opposition benches in the House of Commons.<br /><br />Whereas now either from this election or from a second general election this year, we get a single government, with no opposition, formed of<br />TORY / LIB DEM / LABOUR coalition.<br /><br /> Without the socialists winning seats, cutting the number of Tory, Lib Dem and Labour MPs, we are inside a dictatorship.<br /><br />A parliament needs two sides to be a democracy.<br /><br />This has already ended.<br /><br />The SNP need TUSC, to have 2 sides to the Scottish parliament, without the big parties.<br /><br />Plaid Cymru need the few TUSC running in South Wales to do the same.<br /><br />Little Mebyon Kernow in Cornwall can rid us of 6 Tory and Lib Dem MPs, and might link up with Plaid Cymru and SNP, as a Celt fringe.<br /><br />Winning is the key.<br /><br />We cannot just wait.<br /><br />The starving cannot wait, nor the suicidal, nor the babes born premature when mother is sanctioned off food for months before due date, and for months after the premature birth, unable to breast feed from the stress and the hunger.<br /><br />This is not politics.<br /><br />This is food on the table and a roof over your head.<br /><br />www.anastasia-england.me.ukAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-49110203137222113092015-04-20T12:26:13.790+01:002015-04-20T12:26:13.790+01:00When the RMT stopped supporting the SSP to follow ...When the RMT stopped supporting the SSP to follow the CWI it was against the wish of most of its members. Top Down nonsense.Vinyl Minerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143010575470895405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-38462420254557237882015-04-19T18:51:32.802+01:002015-04-19T18:51:32.802+01:00Cant speak for other areas but to look at TUSC in ...Cant speak for other areas but to look at TUSC in teh MEdway Towns (in Kent)...<br /><br />We are standing in all three parliamentary constituencies. (2RMT members and 1 SP...2 blokes and 1 female)<br /><br />We are also standing in all 22 wards for council..something only Labour and the Tories have been able to do...even UKIP, which has an MP here, isnt standing in all wards.<br /><br />Our council candidates are a majority female, a third under 30 and only 2 have ever stood for election before.<br /><br />The RMT locally are fully behind TUSC - standing 5 of the council candidates and getting actively involved in the campaign and raising money.<br /><br />Regionally the RMT are also supportive and invited us to address their regional AGM.<br /><br />I think that the TUSC campaign is qualitatively different to other left campaigns and to previous TUSC campaigns.<br /><br />Looking at the 'far left' may appear a hobby akin to stamp collecting for some, but TUSC represents a real process happening in politics. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-3429689180506353052015-04-16T11:12:06.943+01:002015-04-16T11:12:06.943+01:00Cheers for that, Josiah.
Re: Class War, they play...Cheers for that, Josiah.<br /><br />Re: Class War, they played a wee role in my radicalisation - I was regularly fed issues of CW by a mate whose dad was a member. I recall asking how large CW were and the reply came ... "not that big, they have about 20,000 members."Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-4475350513830711662015-04-15T15:35:07.651+01:002015-04-15T15:35:07.651+01:00I actually suspect that Class War measure their su...I actually suspect that Class War measure their success in terms of column inches rather than new recruits. From what I recall their highest ever membership was around 150 people, just after the Poll Tax Riots.<br /><br />And I'm not sure that the SPGBeegees have any concept of success at all. They probably consider the very idea to be reformist. ;)Waterloo Sunsetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-43293733202827350042015-04-14T23:24:59.428+01:002015-04-14T23:24:59.428+01:00Re. the stuff on women's representation among ...Re. the stuff on women's representation among candidates, you might be interested in the Electoral Reform Society's latest report on this - got all the stats! www.electoral-reform.org.uk/blog/women-in-westminsterJosiahhttp://marchthefury.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-76864766471558817202015-04-14T20:43:50.432+01:002015-04-14T20:43:50.432+01:00Yep, Mick Cash being Labour and Peter being Green ...Yep, Mick Cash being Labour and Peter being Green ends the pretence that the RMT backs TUSC as the SP claims. It used to a bit, and now doesn't at all in any meaningful way.voxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-87930487450999698892015-04-13T23:56:04.650+01:002015-04-13T23:56:04.650+01:00Like the fact that President of the RMT and former...Like the fact that President of the RMT and former CP'r Peter Pinkey is standing for the Greens in Redcar. Probably get as many votes as the combined TUSC.Vinyl Minerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14143010575470895405noreply@blogger.com